Capacity: 50,000
Concert starts: 8:45pm

FIRST HALF: In
The Flesh, Mother, Set The Controls For the Heart Of The Sun, Shine On
You Crazy Diamond, Have A Cigar, Wish You Were Here, Southampton Dock,
The Fletcher Memorial Home, Perfect Sense parts 1 and 2, Leaving
Beirut, Sheep.
SECOND HALF: Dark Side of the Moon. ENCORE: The Happiest Days Of Our Lives, Another Brick In The Wall (Pt 2), Vera, Bring the Boys back Home, Comfortably Numb.

COMMENTS

A crowd of 50,000 greeted Roger
and the band for this very historic occasion. Showing their love of the
music, the fans sang themselves hoarse to every song, revelling in the
moment. Certainly, the band were clearly playing very well, and seemed
struck by the sense of occasion.

At one point, Roger said to the
crowd: "Thank you so much for coming to Neve Shalom, the village of
peace. It means a great deal to them, and also to me. I may be speaking
out of turn, but I believe that me, and the rest of world, need this
generation of Israelis to TEAR DOWN THE WALLS and to make peace with
their neighbours." This was naturally met with huge applause!

Reckoned to be the best show of
the tour to date, it's going to be difficult for them to top this. The
tour moves to Moscow, where they will be performing just by Red Square
tomorrow night.

Not all the video links may work internationally. Our thanks to Uri Breitman and Asaf Carmeli for sending over these links.

SHOW BACKGROUND

UPDATE - 17th April: The
venue has now moved, to Neve Shalom at the foot of the Latrun
monastery, on the road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. It is a village
of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence. Roger stated that he decided to
move the show, in order to "show solidarity with the voices of reason
of Israelis and Palestinians seeking a non-violent way for a just peace
between the two peoples". The show will take place on a chickpea field!

UPDATE - 16th June: The show is
being broadcast live on local radio. It will be aired on 88FM and also
Reshet Bet, which is part of the Israeli Broadcasting Authority.

88FM is a commercial
station, and Reshet Bet is non-commercial. Reshet Bet will be
broadcasting the whole show, starting at 21:05 until midnight, with 5
minutes of news breaks every round hour.

88FM are broadcasting from 20:30,
until midnight, without interruptions. Same announcer's name on both
stations, so we assume it will be the same feed. Neither station are
permitted to air the show on the Internet, as this would break their
contract (this info thanks to Howard at Neve Shalom).

As a warm-up, they are bringing
on some Israeli/Arab performers, as an act of solidarity. This whole
show has got a bit of a political tone since it was moved from Tel Aviv
to Latrun. So, if you listen to the feed and hear something Arabic,
don't worry - you are listening to the start of the show!

"My story with Roger Waters goes
back 19 years - that was the time we first talked about doing a concert
in Israel. And, for more than ten years we have been talking about Neve
Shalom as the location. One of the dates we considered was Israel’s
40th anniversary..."

Weiss was asked why NSWAS?
"Waters’ has always been interested in humanitarian causes,
coexistence, and the like. So I had to find him something suitable.
NSWAS is my one true example of coexistence, unfortunately, so I told
him about it and he said that’s where he wanted to appear. This was the
original plan when we talked about the concert last year. But we
thought it would be in 2007.

"Then, in January this year he
decided to do a short tour this year instead, and said he could come to
Israel in June. The problem was, the fields around Neve Shalom had
already been planted, and it didn’t seem practical to do it there at
such short notice, so we decided on Hayarkon Park. Instead of doing the
performance in Neve Shalom, he said he would just give his press
conference there. Then he looked at the matter more deeply and decided
to move the concert to Neve Shalom after all."

He
continued: "When we announced that the concert was moving to Neve
Shalom, there were lots of angry voices and people telling us they
would cancel their tickets. But apparantly many people were happy about
it too, even if they were less vocal. Because on the day of the
announcement we sold 2,000 tickets, while till today, only 117 people
have cancelled.

"It was a significant step for
Waters to move the concert to Neve Shalom, and it is going to leave a
very positive message. It’s good that there are artists like him. He
knows very well that it would have been much cheaper to do the concert
in Tel Aviv and that moving it to Neve Shalom is going to cut deeply
into his earnings. Many artists talk a lot about human rights issues -
but when it comes to their wallet, they aren’t willing to give a penny.
Waters isn’t a talker - he’s a doer - he doesn’t even intend to do
interviews while in Israel. The only place he will speak, if at all, is
in Neve Shalom."

SHOW REVIEW

Here is my concert review for
Israel, got it posted quite late, but I find that the concert still
feels like some kind of wonderful dream.

I spent 5 days in Israel. There I
had a room in Wahat al Salam and I saw the stage and I could hear some
sound from my place. We had lovely weather. Cars with thousands of fans
blocked the roads for miles. So the parkings was still almost empty as
I walked down to the concert area.

An hour before the music began,
the area was already filling up as people attempted to find a place as
close to the stage as possible. With the pressure from the back, which
seemed to be getting stronger all the time, I found myself in the
second row. Leading Israeli musicians David Broza and Micha Sheetrit,
as well as the popular rock band Mashina, performed ahead of Roger's
Band. Most of the crowd was still sat down.

Every time there was a break in
the background music, the restless audience cheered enthusiastically
hoping for Roger Waters to begin his show. The crew brought us cups
with water, which we were happy about, because there was no leg room
and it was very hot in the crowd.

The sun went down first, then by
the time the music stopped and the lights were dimmed, the area was
full to the brim with cheering fans eager with anticipation.

"Shalom! - Are you ready? -
eins…zwei…drei…" The band opened with In the Flesh and there the fans
jumped up and sang along to the songs. Then they screamed: "Roger
Waters!… Roger Waters!… Roger Waters!… Roger Waters!…" and also
"Snowy!… Snowy!… Snowy!… Snowy!…" In the air a helicopter turned big
circles around the concert area.

Wish You Were Here is one of my favorite songs, which I really enjoyed. I felt as though I had gone back in a time machine.

Roger's Leaving Beirut was
another milestone. Lots of folk were still rocking, but lots of them
were just standing there with their mouths open, too. During Sheep I
thought there was a herd of sheep next to me and it sounds same the
whole night. Anyway the song sounded good. The helicopter circled
around still.

A giant cheer went up to Roger
Waters as he spoke to the audience "Thank you so much for coming to
Neve Shalom, the village of peace ….."

The concert continued with Speak To Me, which was great to hear live.

Then, there was the last song of
the encore - Comfortably Numb. It was after Snowy went into the
acoustic solo bit, which I really enjoyed. I mean, just him and his
guitar, that was great. Probably one of the most memorable moments of
the concert for me.

Roger Waters is still good for a
highly enjoyable evening, with great music and a tremendous amount of
fun. All the best for your coming shows, Roger.

Cars with thousands of fans
blocked the roads for miles again. The car's headlights highlit the way
as I walked back up the Monastery Ground back to my room. At the very
end of my trip in the cafe ‹wahat as salam› another highlight, they
gave me the concert poster as a souvenir.